Lavrov, Sergey Borisovich (geographer)

Sergey Borisovich Lavrov
Sergey Borisovich Lavrov
Date of Birth
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Date of death
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Scientific field	geography , economic geography , regional geography , political geography .
Place of work	Leningrad State University — St. Petersburg State University
Alma mater	LSU
Academic degree
supervisor	Semevsky B.N.
Famous students	Druzhinin A.G. , Kaledin N.V.
Known as	Specialist in the field of economic geography and social geography , theory of geography, political geography of geopolitics , author and editor of textbooks on economic geography for higher and secondary schools.
Awards and prizes

Sergey Borisovich Lavrov ( May 26, 1928 , Leningrad - July 17, 2000 , St. Petersburg ) - Soviet and Russian geographer , economic geographer and political geographer , doctor of geographical sciences (1968), professor (1970), teacher .

Since 1992 - and. about. President of the Russian Geographical Society , in 1995–2000 - President of the Russian Geographical Society , member of the European Academy (London), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998), Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council Commission on National Policy and Interethnic Relations (1988-1991), head of the department economic and social geography of Leningrad State University — St. Petersburg State University (1976–1997). He lectured at universities in Berlin, Hamburg, and Sofia.

For a long time he headed the specialized council for the defense of doctoral dissertations in economic , social, and political geography at Leningrad State University — St. Petersburg State University , and was a member of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR.

Supporter of the philosophical and political movement of Eurasianism . Companion of the historian, ethnologist, geographer Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov , in 1992-2000 - Deputy President of the Fund L. N. Gumilyov.

Content

1 Biography
2 Contribution to science
3 Books and monographs
4 Main scientific articles
5 Sources
6 notes

Biography

Sergey Borisovich Lavrov was born on May 26, 1928 in Leningrad in a family of philologists-Russianists. Parents taught in various educational institutions of Leningrad.

In 1941 - 1942 spent his childhood in the besieged Leningrad, then was evacuated with his family to Saratov. In the evacuation he kept a diary published in 2011 ^[1] . After lifting the blockade, he returned to Leningrad. In 1945 - 1950 studied at the geographical faculty of Leningrad State University.

In 1954, after graduating from graduate school, he began working at the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Faculty of Geography, Leningrad State University.

In 1968 he defended his doctoral dissertation, in 1970 he became a professor at LSU.

From 1976 to 1997 headed the department of economic and social geography of Leningrad State University — St. Petersburg State University . In 1984 , he represented domestic science at the XXV International Geographical Congress in Paris.

In 1988 - 1991 - Deputy of the Supreme Council of the USSR.

Since 1992 - and. about. President of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) , 1995–2000 - President of the Russian Geographical Society.

In 1992 - 2000 - Deputy President of the Fund L. N. Gumilyov.

In 1998 , S. B. Lavrov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.

Contribution to Science

S. B. Lavrov was a follower of the traditions of the Leningrad scientific and pedagogical school of economic and social geography. The scientist laid the scientific foundations for the formation of social ecology, created the conceptual foundations of political geography and geopolitics, developed the scientific and methodological foundations of economic and social geography of foreign countries. The works of S. B. Lavrov enriched the theoretical and methodological potential of socio-geographical science.

In the mid-1980s at the Department of Economic Geography, scientists introduce a lecture course in political geography with the aim of developing an idea of political geography as an independent, relevant and practically significant direction in the system of socio-geographical sciences.

Thanks to the efforts of S. B. Lavrov, the first domestic monograph on the political geography of V. A. Kolosov , published in Leningrad, was published in 1988, and nine years later, the first cathedral political and geographical monograph became the second in Russia. ^[2]

Books and Monographs

The economic geography of the GDR. L., 1966
The geography of industry in Germany. L., 1967.
Germany today. L., 1973.
Economic and environmental problems of capitalist and developing countries. M .: Education, 1978.
Germany: geography, population, economy. M .: Thought, 1982.
This contrasting world. M .: Progress, 1985.
Global problems of our time. SPb., 1993, 1995.
Economic and social geography of the world (textbook for 10th grade). M .: Education, 1995.
Global geography (textbook for 11th grade). M .: Bustard, 1997.
Geopolitical realities of Russia. SPb., 1999.
Leo Gumilyov. Fate and ideas. - M .: Svarog and K., 2000.
What kind of world do we live in ?. - SPb .: Time, 2001.
Regionalisation for Planning in the USSR. Nagoja, 1985.
Burgeliche Konzeptionen der regionalen Entwicklung. Gotha (GDR), 1986.
Conzept of Regional Development. M .: Progress, 1988.

Key Scientific Articles

Bavaria as one of the economic regions of Germany // Vestnik LSU . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1959, No. 6.
B. N. Semevsky and his contribution to the development of the theory of Soviet economic geography // Bulletin of Leningrad State University . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1982, No. 3.
The geography of the gas economy of Germany // Vestnik LSU . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1965.
Geography and geographers (preface to the book of R. Johnston). M. , progress, 1986.
Geopolitics: the revival of the forbidden direction // News of the Russian Geographical Society , 1993, No. 4.
Geopolitics and regional studies: a view of scientists // Geopolitical and geoecological problems of Russia. St. Petersburg, 1995.
Geopolitical space of Russia: myths and reality // Bulletin of the Russian Geographical Society , 1997, No. 3.
Geoecology: theory and important issues of practice // Bulletin of VGO USSR , 1989, No. 2.
State-monopoly complexes and regional problems // Bulletin of VGO USSR , 1983, No. 1. (et al.)
Integration tendencies in geography // In: Soviet geography. L. , Science, 1984.
The concept of "poles of growth" and the experience of regional planning of developing countries // Bulletin of VGO USSR, 1980, No. 5. (et al.)
Some aspects of social geography of the West // Questions of geography . M. , 1980, No. 5.
On the fundamental differences between capitalist and socialist industrial-territorial complexes // Vestnik LSU . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1966, No. 1. (et al.)
"Common Market" and the geography of the economy of Germany // Vestnik LSU . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1965, No. 1.
On the methodological basis of socio-geoecology // Bulletin of the Russian Geographical Society , 1994, No. 1. (et al.)
On the system of geographical concepts // In: Theoretical problems of geography. L .: GO of the USSR, 1983. (et al.)
On the key economic problem // Izvestia AN SSSR , Ser.geograf., 1982, No. 3. (et al.).
German Unification: Problems of Coalescence of Economic and Regional Structures // Izvestiya VGO SSSR , 1991, No. 6.
P. Savitsky - the first Russian geopolitics // Regional Policy, 1996, No. 1.
Politico-geographical aspects of regional politics // In: Political geography and modernity. L. , 1989.
Port-industrial complexes in the problem of the relationship between society and the natural environment in the ocean and the regional development of coastal areas // Sat: Issues of ocean geography. L. , GO USSR, 1983.
The draft Program of the CPSU and some issues of teaching economic geography // Izvestiya VGO SSSR ., 1961, No. 3.
Industrial shift to the sea and the formation of industrial port complexes // Materials of the VI Congress of the USSR Civil Defense. L. , 1975 (et al.).
The radical geography of the West of the 80s. // Proceedings of the VGO of the USSR , No. 3, 1988.
The realities of globalization and mirages of sustainable development // Bulletin of the Russian Geographical Society , 1999, No. 3.
Regional policy in the industrialized capitalist countries: the impact of political forces (for example, Germany), 1987.
Review of the book "Actual problems of the development and distribution of productive forces in capitalist countries" // Izvestiya VGO SSSR, 1982, No. 2.
Shifts in the geography of the oil refining industry of Germany // Bulletin of VGO USSR , 1966, No. 2.
Soviet geography: some results and prospects // Bulletin of VGO USSR , 1982, No. 6. (et al.)
Social geography: problems of the formation of a scientific direction // In Sat: Social geography in the USSR. L. , 1983. (et al.)
Socio-economic geography in Western countries at the turn // Izvestiya VGO SSSR , 1979, No. 2. (et al.)
Socio-economic environmental problems and science // In: Environmental protection. L. , GO USSR, 1980. (et al.)
Country Studies: Past and Future // Bulletin of the Higher Military School of the USSR , 1978, No. 1. (et al.)
The structure of geographical science: past disputes and modern positions // Geography in the system of sciences. L .: Science, 1987.
Difficult problems of the Saarist metallurgy // Bulletin of Leningrad State University . Ser. 5. Economy., 1965, No. 11.
Urbanization in Western Europe // Problems of urbanization and large cities. L. , Science, 1984.
"Germany" and "West Berlin" of the head of the 2-volume edition of "countries and peoples." M .: Thought, 1979.
The economic geography of the USSR for 60 years // Vestnik LSU . Ser. 7. Geogr., 1977, No. 2. (et al.)
Economic and environmental problems of developing countries // In: Geography of developing countries. L. , GO USSR, 1983. (et al.)
NN Baranskiy and the geography of Foreign Countries // Soviet geography, 1983, No. 6. (et al.)

Articles in various publications

What kind of world do we live in? // St. Petersburg Gazette, 1998,26 May - [1]
What is the phenomenon of Leo Gumilyov // St. Petersburg Gazette, 1993, April 9 - [2]
Geographer in the XX century // Around the World, 1983, No. 8. - [3]
Geopolitical practitioner Albert Haushofer - [4]
Eurasianism: the modernity of the concept // Moscow Cathedral, 1999, No. 10. - [5]
Testament of the great Eurasian // Afterword to the book of L. N. Gumilyov “From Russia to Russia: Essays on Ethnic History”. - M.: Center ecol. Enlightenment and Development "Ecocamp": Progress. Firm "Progress-Pangea". 1994. - [6]
Cross the river, feeling for stones // St. Petersburg Gazette, July 2000, 22. - [7] (last article of the author).
Russian Space: Myths and Reality // Crimea Island, No. 6. - [8]
Triumph after death // St. Petersburg University / 1997, No. 16, September 1 - [9]

Sources

Anokhin A. A. A great scientist, a true university student, a kind, charming person - that is how we remember S. B. Lavrov. // Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University , 2001, No. 14-15. [10]
Anokhin A.A. Geographical space of the social world // Anniversary of the Faculty of Geography and Geoecology (80 years), special issue of St. Petersburg State University, 2005.
Belov Yu. Everything remains to people. In memory of S. B. Lavrov // Soviet Russia, 2000, August 24 [11]
Bogucharskov V.T. History of Geography: Textbook for High Schools -: Academic Project, 2006. - 560s.
Brinken A. O., Seliverstov Yu. P. Sergey Borisovich Lavrov and the Russian Geographical Society // Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University , 2001, No. 14-15. [12]
Brinken A.O., Seliverstov Yu.P. Sergey Borisovich Lavrov and the Russian Geographical Society // Geopolitics: Lying. state and problems: (Materials scientific. Conf.) / RGO. St. Petersburg, 2001.S. 7-16.
Kaledin N.V. Political geography: touches on the historical portrait of science and its leaders. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. St. Petersburg, 2009.S. 9-28.
Krasnopolsky A.V. Domestic geographers. St. Petersburg, 1993.
Mikhailov Yu. P. Return of geopolitics and some of its new aspects // Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University , 2001, No. 14-15 [13]
Orekhov A. “Eurasian Geopolitics (notes on Sergey Lavrov)” // “Tomorrow” 2001, No. 31. [14]
Osipov V. A. S. B. Lavrov and geographical ideas of the beginning of the XXI century. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. SPb., 2009. S.254-258.
Editorial Board S. B. Lavrov - a major scientist, public figure, organizer of science. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. SPb., 2009. S. 5-8.
Rusanov I. Geographer Sergey Borisovich Lavrov - aristocrat of science, blockade, communist, patron of Leo Gumilyov. [fifteen]
Topchiev A. G. About Sergey Borisovich Lavrov, about time and about himself. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. SPb., 2009. S.258-264.
Conference in memory of S. Lavrov
Scientific works of C. B. Lavrov
About the scientist on the website of St. Petersburg State University
Official site of the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, section "History of the Department"
Regulation on the Prize of the Russian Geographical Society
Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg

Notes

↑ Presentation of the diary book of S. B. Lavrov “Everything and Everything Remains in Leningrad” | Reading
↑ Editorial Board S. B. Lavrov - a major scientist, public figure, organizer of science. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. SPb., 2009. S. 5-8.

Predecessor:
Academician Alexei Fedorovich Treshnikov

9th President of the Russian Geographical Society
1995 - 2000

Successor:
Professor Yuri Petrovich Seliverstov

[1] Presentation of the diary book of S. B. Lavrov “Everything and Everything Remains in Leningrad” | Reading

[2] Editorial Board S. B. Lavrov - a major scientist, public figure, organizer of science. // Modern problems of the theory and practice of social geography: (Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the 80th birthday of Sergei Borisovich Lavrov) / Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St. Petersburg State University, Russian Geographical Society. SPb., 2009. S. 5-8.